Its Not Just Knives

[Brasso]

They should just pass some legislation banning violence. It's so simple and useless a solution that a liberal should have easily been able to come up with that.

What's the quickest way to stop two people from knife fighting?.......give one of them a gun.

An armed society is a polite society......as long as you don't make self defense a crime. Doooh!

 

[G36-UK]

I agree, this place is getting screwed. Our Airsoft stuff is getting banned, while lethal airguns are getting looked over. As if the arsing about after the Brococks wasn't bad enough. I'd have thought they'd have learnt their lesson by now.

BTW -

HankB-
It's not a skirt, it's a kilt. And it's called that for a reason...

Anyone think of a CCW that'd fit in a sporran? Might go national if I get over there.

 

[Waitone]

G6-UK, as our resident Scot I just gotta ask a question. Has the gooberment cut back on the whiskey you guys can produce? Something has happened to your nutrition which has created the "pacifist scot". I have a hard time imagining the existance of such an individual yet evidently they seem to run the country.

 

[Feanaro]

"We are seeing that a lot on CCTV. You find people involved in a disturbance outside a nightclub, and one of them takes off their belt, wraps it around their hand and lashes somebody with the buckle.

I don't think that's a new technique. It's sad to see one of my ancestral homelands so out of touch with themselves. They are supposed to have a "weapon culture". Unfortunately I doubt Ireland(I'm Irish/Scottish/German/English, from most to least) is doing much better. :banghead:

 

[P95Carry]

"It is not always just knives and other bladed instruments; people are using bottles, glasses, anything they can get their hands on.?

For each item banned - another will surface as a substitute. All the banning imaginable will never halt this sorta trend, as the number of ''potential weapons'' is only as limited by the imagination of potential aggressors.

Carpenters watch out - chisels and screwdrivers will be next... along with hammers.

Pubs will have to convert to ''non glass'' drinking containers.

Pants will have to be custom made for good fit, once belts are outlawed.

All games employing heavy objects will have to cease - no more baseball, no more tennis or cricket - oh and hockey too.

Maybe the final solution would be to ban breathing!

 

[p35]

Belts

There was a row in Silver Street that's near to Dublin Quay,
Between an Irish regiment an' English cavalree;
It started at Revelly an' it lasted on till dark:
The first man dropped at Harrison's, the last forninst the Park.
For it was: -- "Belts, belts, belts, an' that's one for you!"
An' it was "Belts, belts, belts, an' that's done for you!"
O buckle an' tongue
Was the song that we sung
From Harrison's down to the Park!

There was a row in Silver Street -- the regiments was out,
They called us "Delhi Rebels", an' we answered "Threes about!"
That drew them like a hornet's nest -- we met them good an' large,
The English at the double an' the Irish at the charge.
Then it was: -- "Belts . . .

There was a row in Silver Street -- an' I was in it too;
We passed the time o' day, an' then the belts went whirraru!
I misremember what occurred, but subsequint the storm
A Freeman's Journal Supplemint was all my uniform.
O it was: -- "Belts . . .

There was a row in Silver Street -- they sent the Polis there,
The English were too drunk to know, the Irish didn't care;
But when they grew impertinint we simultaneous rose,
Till half o' them was Liffey mud an' half was tatthered clo'es.
For it was: -- "Belts . . .

There was a row in Silver Street -- it might ha' raged till now,
But some one drew his side-arm clear, an' nobody knew how;
'Twas Hogan took the point an' dropped; we saw the red blood run:
An' so we all was murderers that started out in fun.
While it was: -- "Belts . . .

There was a row in Silver Street -- but that put down the shine,
Wid each man whisperin' to his next: "'Twas never work o' mine!"
We went away like beaten dogs, an' down the street we bore him,
The poor dumb corpse that couldn't tell the bhoys were sorry for him.
When it was: -- "Belts . . .

There was a row in Silver Street -- it isn't over yet,
For half of us are under guard wid punishments to get;
'Tis all a merricle to me as in the Clink I lie:
There was a row in Silver Street -- begod, I wonder why!
But it was: -- "Belts, belts, belts, an' that's one for you!"
An' it was "Belts, belts, belts, an' that's done for you!"
O buckle an' tongue
Was the song that we sung
From Harrison's down to the Park!

-Kipling

The British sure have slipped!

 

[cracked butt]

Dang it, people already beat me to it- the UK is headed for an all Nerf society.

I read in the paper a few weeks ago, that William Wallace's Claymore was sent to the US for a short time for a museum exhibit. Its supposedly the first time the sword has ever left the Isles. Maybe we shouldn't send it back.

 

[Pilgrim]

"It's very much what they can lay their hands on at the time."

You don't suppose that this is one of the reasons that homo sapiens is at the top of the food chain, do you?

Pilgrim

 

[Sylvilagus Aquaticus]

Just a suggestion...

Rebuild Hadrian's Wall and throw the English out...again.

Regards,
Rabbit.

 

[peacefuljeffrey]

I think that the germain thing in the article is this:
"There's definitely a need to reduce the availability of knives. We have had a significant number of murders where people have gone and bought horrendous hunting knives with seven-inch blades."


What on EARTH does that mean?! When a person says, "There's definitely a need to reduce the availability of knives," exactly what is he thinking of doing? How would government control the number of knives available per capita? Without making knives completely unavailable, in a legal sense of being able to buy them in a store or from a catalog or the internet, how would "availability" of knives be controlled? It seems nonsensical to me to even say such a thing. :banghead:

What's so horrendous about a seven-inch-bladed hunting knife, if the person who owns it is not murderous? Absolutely nothing. But by contrast, there is grave danger from a person who IS murderous even when he does NOT own a seven-inch-bladed hunting knife. This is the plain, obvious logic that these utter freakin' morons in the U.K. are not able to understand. That non-knife-owning would-be murderer, even though he has no knife, can make himself a lethal danger to those around him with many, many perfectly legal objects and materials.

I notice that even though they say that these crimes are often due to alcohol abuse, NO ONE IS SUGGESTING BANNING THE CONSUMPTION OF ALCOHOL, even as they ARE suggesting banning very useful tools that have been used by mankind for millennia. :banghead: Buncha idiots. I hope their society crumbles into dust. They deserve it for being so stupid.

-Jeffrey

 

[cracked butt]

They should ban and confiscate all automobiles also. One can make a satisfactory machete or knife out of a leafspring. Oh and ban files and grinders too.

 

[hifi]

. . . a disturbing recent phenomenon was the use of belt buckles as weapons.

Every article I've read out of England or Scotland in the past ten years has been more and more disturbing....it just never ends...

I'm gonna go give my Swiss army knife a hug.

 

[G36-UK]

G6-UK, as our resident Scot I just gotta ask a question. Has the gooberment cut back on the whiskey you guys can produce? Something has happened to your nutrition which has created the "pacifist scot". I have a hard time imagining the existance of such an individual yet evidently they seem to run the country.

To be honest, I ain't got a clue. Most of us just lap up the sh**e that comes out of the Parliaments now.

Fortunately, some of us have retained our mistrust of big government. I don't see how they can think any more bans will work, considering how they ar*ed up the Brocock ban. Load of bollocks, IMHO.